Example sentences of "[vb past] for [art] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOUR months after attending a weekend course on team building and sales training , staff from Treasury and Capital Markets , Scotland met for a day-long follow-up session in the conference room at Drummond House . |
| 2 | As the Cabinet met for an unprecedented late-night session , Mr Major was searching for a way out of the deadlock that would help Chancellor Norman Lamont unveil a mini-Budget for recovery next week . |
| 3 | As the Cabinet met for an unprecedented late-night session , Mr Major was searching for a way out of the deadlock that would help Chancellor Norman Lamont unveil a mini-Budget for recovery next week . |
| 4 | In 1982 the Conference of Bishops of England and Wales asked for a new Religious Education programme that would reflect this thinking . |
| 5 | However , the Guild also asked for a comprehensive home-help service so that women would not worry about the welfare of younger children and husbands , but this was not forthcoming . |
| 6 | The mixture of reactionary conservatism and political anti-semitism in the main represented a response of those who asked for a stable hierarchical society based on paternalistic deference . |
| 7 | Hammond , as well as carefully going through the various room assignments with Hunt , asked for a two-storey fire-proof building with attic and basement , and limited accommodation for servants and messengers . |
| 8 | Last year she asked for a big French dictionary for her birthday . ’ |
| 9 | He asked for a little restorative brandy , then saw a baker 's tray of delicious cakes being carried into the inn 's side-door . |
| 10 | My eldest sister had a black cauldron suspended from an old iron cooking tripod , this was filled with sawdust and packed with small gifts which made for an attractive lucky dip at tuppence a time . |
| 11 | These interconnections argued for a close symbiotic relationship between the two media . |
| 12 | On the one hand , there were those who argued for a simple causal relationship between education and security in the labour-market . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , reflecting upon the record of the Labour government of 1945–51 and on the policies which its successor should pursue , he argued for a coherent socialist policy which would be freshly committed to ideals and be capable of realization . |
| 14 | At Maastricht , the Germans argued for a common foreign policy for the European Community . |
| 15 | The legislation also provided for a maximum personal income tax rate of 47 per cent and for corporation tax of 45 per cent . |
| 16 | In comparison the agrarian reform introduced by the Chilean Christian Democrats under Eduardo Frei ( 1964–70 ) provided for a maximum basic unit of only 80 hectares . |
| 17 | The law also provided for a 24 nautical mile " adjacent area " in which the Taiwan government could take precautions against any intrusion . |
| 18 | The 1982 Constitution , which provided for an elected National Assembly , was suspended after the coup , as was the Democratic Party of Guinea , formerly the ruling and sole legal party . |
| 19 | The 1982 Constitution , which provided for an elected National Assembly , was suspended after the coup , as was the Democratic Party of Guinea ( PDG ) , formerly the ruling and sole legal party . |
| 20 | The figures show that the number of pollution incidents rose for the fifth successive year and have doubled since 1985 . |
| 21 | As the moment approached for a key procedural vote that would make or break Reagan 's programme , Stockman received an agitated telephone call from Bill Thomas , a conservative Republican from California and an agent of the administration on Capitol Hill : This extended quotation provides a fascinating picture of the American pluralist system in operation while helping us to understand why the Reaganites were successful in fashioning the coalitions they required in the House of Representatives . |
| 22 | She headed for the outsize black car that was parked opposite . |
| 23 | Determined not to re-enter blind institution life , I headed for the nearby technical college who would n't have me either . |
| 24 | As they parked and headed for the open front door , a smiling woman in a dusky pink two-piece and with her silver hair caught back in a chignon appeared to welcome them . |
| 25 | Entire neighbourhoods headed for the unexpected one-way potlatch . |
| 26 | At the decade 's start everything was gloom and doom , cutbacks the order of the day since in 1979 the number of commuters going into London dropped for the tenth successive year . |
| 27 | In the RAF he played for a representative Welsh side with a famous senior International , Bleddyn Williams . |
| 28 | I developed so much skill that I could put together a 50 or 60 break and when I moved to York I played for the local Conservative club and reached the final of the York and District competition . |
| 29 | Jack was a native of Crook in County Durham and played for the local amateur side as a junior before signing for Newcastle at the age of 17 . |
| 30 | Of course it 's not easy to keep up the smiles in public , as the couple showed in Seoul yesterday when they arrived for a five-day Korean visit . |